Anna Henderson

Anna Henderson is the digital political reporter at ABC's Parliament House bureau. Anna has worked as a television, radio and online reporter at Federal Parliament since 2012, and also covers the national Indigenous Affairs round. She was first employed at ABC News as a cadet in 2008 and has previously been based in Darwin and Alice Springs as a TV and radio reporter for the national broadcaster. She started her career at a regional newspaper in New South Wales covering politics and crime.

Labor ratchets up its threats about causing disruption when Federal Parliament resumes, warning that if Bronwyn Bishop remains in the Speaker's chair cooperation across the dispatch box will evaporate.

Cabinet Minister Scott Morrison says Speaker Bronwyn Bishop has been consulting with colleagues about her future, as she faces continuing uproar from the Opposition over her taxpayer-funded travel claims.

The Australian Sex Party is back in the federal political game, two months after the Australian Electoral Commission cancelled the party's registration because it was not meeting the membership requirements.

Bill Shorten promises party dissenters that Labor's asylum seeker policy will be "safe and humane" but makes no reference to the sensitive issue of boat turn-backs as he opens this weekend's ALP national conference.

Bill Shorten is preparing to firm up Labor's plans to double Australia's refugee intake, in a move that is expected to quell some of the internal discontent over his decision to endorse the Government's boat turn-back policy.